Ambulance Deployment With Relocation Through Robust Optimization

• Published in: IEEE transactions on automation science and engineering Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 138 - 147
• Main Authors: Zhang, Ran, Zeng, Bo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.01.2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Ambulance location and relocation; Ambulances; Approximation; approximation algorithm; Computation; Computational modeling; Design optimization; Emergency medical services; Formulations; Health services; Mathematical analysis; Mathematical models; Medical services; Numerical models; Optimization; Probabilistic logic; Quantitative analysis; Relocation; Robustness (mathematics); two-stage robust optimization (RO); Uncertainty

This paper investigates the deployment issue of an emergency medical service (EMS) system to maintain the preferred service coverages under different considerations. Specifically, two coverage levels are introduced to reflect the requirements under the regular situation and the situation with ambula...